Vietnamese Food and Cooking

Bye Bye Saigon

Good Munching, Vietnam

Best Vietnamese Restaurant

Pho Nam Do Vietnamese Noodle House

Best Sub

Bánh Mí

Tet à Tet

Ringing in the Year of the Rat at Sakyo

Risky Business

Jinja makes a stab at CityPlace

I'm O-Cây, You're O-Cây

It's a quick, 20-minute drive to the heart of Saigon

Saigon Dreaming

No night should be a slow night at this Vietnamese joint

Best Vietnamese Restaurant

Pho Nam Do

Why Thai?

Thai-An Market brings Southeast Asia to Southeast Florida

The Wheel Deal

When it comes to serving great Vietnamese cuisine, Red Cyclo puts the pedal to the metal

House Sweet Home

Once you get past the smothering service, you'll love the selection of delicious Vietnamese cuisine at Lê's House

Good Eating, Vietnam!

Indochine

Vietnamese Banh Mi Meets All-American Burger

Photos by Bill CitaraOK, so if you tried out last week's little lesson on pork-stuffed shrimp, you've got three-fourths of a pound of ground pork, rather assertively seasoned with black pepper, garlic, cilantro, and fish sauce. What do you do with all that pig? Well, you could freeze it for cramming ... More >>

A Burger Goes to Spain

Clean Plate Charlie is obsessed with burgers. Hey, it's better than sneaking out of the governor's mansion to rub the bacon with former Argentine TV reporters or performing unnatural acts on small farm animals.   Charlie's burger fetish plays itself out by coming up with patties that chann ... More >>

Stealing From the Restaurant: Tuna Burger with Teriyaki Aioli

Bill Citara​When John Montagu, First Lord of the Admiralty and avowed Satanist (!), asked his valet to slap a hunk of meat between two slices of bread in 1762, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich could hardly have known that almost 250 years later a restaurant in Boca Raton would nestle a juicy slab of gr ... More >>

Pho Real: Basilic Vietnamese Grill in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea

​I took a trip to the beach last night and sank into some Pho at Basilic, a Vietnamese restaurant that took over Tedesco's old spot on Commercial Blvd. The tiny bistro serves a mean bowl of the stuff, fragrant with anise and ginger and loaded with strips of thinly sliced steak that cooks inside of ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Hu Tieu Xao Ga

John Linn​ Pictured: Stir-fried rice noodles with chicken and asparagus (hu tieu xao ga).Chicken: Salt. Pepper. Fish sauce. Soy sauce. Rice wine vinegar. Olive oil. Hot pan. Sear.Noodles: Blanch.Asparagus: Salt. Pepper. Olive oil. Saute. Finish: Hot wok. Vegetable oil. Noodles in. Fish sauce. Soy ... More >>

Order Up: Basilic Vietnamese Grill

​ Vietnamese is fun food. Playing with the various condiments available -- fish sauce (nuoc cham), chili paste, soy, lemongrass and garlic spread, hoisin, sriracha, and more -- requires a bit of lightheartedness coupled with a willingness to experiment. But the results are very exciting, especiall ... More >>

At Basilic Vietnamese Grill in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Everyone's a Chef

​ Vietnamese is fun food. Playing with the various condiments available -- fish sauce (nuoc cham), chili paste, soy, lemongrass and garlic spread, hoisin, sriracha, and more -- requires a bit of lightheartedness coupled with a willingness to experiment. But the results are very exciting, especiall ... More >>

Side Dish: Saigon Cuisine

​ Vietnamese is fun food. Playing with the various condiments available -- fish sauce (nuoc cham), chili paste, soy, lemongrass and garlic spread, hoisin, sriracha, and more -- requires a bit of lightheartedness coupled with a willingness to experiment. But the results are very exciting, especiall ... More >>

Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs

John LinnThe "BBQ" pork chop dinner at Green Papaya in Coral Springs.​For a fun, casual take on Vietnamese, Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs is a great deal. The above dinner is called a Hau Giang "barbecue pork chop," but is actually a breaded piece of pork loin that's been seared ... More >>

Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs Is Worth Finding

John LinnThe "BBQ" pork chop dinner at Green Papaya in Coral Springs.​For a fun, casual take on Vietnamese, Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs is a great deal. The above dinner is called a Hau Giang "barbecue pork chop," but is actually a breaded piece of pork loin that's been seared ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Beef Pho From Basilic Vietnamese Grill

Photo by flickr user Bright Like Neon.​ As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com.

$10 Lunch: L.E. Tapioca & Sandwich

John Linn​The deal: This Vietnamese lunch counter serves spicy banh mi sandwiches and the requisite boba teas to cool your mouth off afterward.

Make Boba at Home With WuFuYuan Tapioca Pearls

John LinnThese tapioca pearls cost about $2.50 for a bag. It makes two to three batches.​I love a good boba (or bubble) smoothie after a big bowl of pho or a banh mi. There's something so fun about sucking up cold, sweet smoothie and finding those little tapioca pearls capriciously running up you ... More >>

Grilled Pork Bun at MAMA Asian Noodle Bar

John Linn​Pictured above: One steaming hot grilled pork bun. No, not pork bun as in the sticky, Chinese dim sum stuffed with bbq pork. Pork Bun as in the Vietnamese vermicelli rice noodle dish, bun thit. It's from MAMA Asian Noodle Bar, a new pan-Asian eatery in the Promenade at Coconut Creek.

Pho 78 Vietnamese Kitchen Opens in Sunrise

John Linn​Mark down another Vietnamese restaurant in West Broward to try. Pho 78, the second location of the Pembroke Pines-based eatery, is now open in Sunrise. The restaurant specializes in pho (pronounced fuh) that most respected of Vietnamese soups that is completely customizable. It offers a ... More >>

Mama Asian Noodle Bar: Awesome Thai Food in Coconut Creek

John Linn​Mark down another Vietnamese restaurant in West Broward to try. Pho 78, the second location of the Pembroke Pines-based eatery, is now open in Sunrise. The restaurant specializes in pho (pronounced fuh) that most respected of Vietnamese soups that is completely customizable. It offers a ... More >>

OED Deems 'Muffin Top', 'Five-Second Rule' Legit

flckr/pgsvenskBanh-mi to other sandwiches: "I'm in! I'm in! The Brits love me!!"​Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary (widely thought of as the authority on the English language) went through a major update that included many food-related words and phrases. The words were deemed common enough i ... More >>

Caribbean Kimchi: A Recipe From Bimini Boatyard's Chef Michael Bennett

Chef Michael Bennett and wife serve up dishes at the Kampong in Coconut Grove ​Bimini Boatyard's Chef Michael Bennett has a joy for both cooking and life. In our recent interview with Chef Bennett, we learned about his passion for bringing the flavors of the Caribbean home to south Flor ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 39 -- Grilled Pork, Shrimp, and Spring Roll "Bun" From Saigon Cuisine

John Linn​As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 39: Grilled Pork, Shrimp, and Spring Roll "Bun" From Saigon ... More >>

How A Rice Cooker Saved Me From A Lifetime Of Prostitution

Elsewhere in the world, rice cookers are sexy. ​Cooking is hard, or so I was brought up to believe. I wasn't told this, but rather deduced it from two facts: 1) My family was full of people who'd spent decades cooking for each other, and 2) almost none of them seemed to be very good at it. So -- w ... More >>

Saigon City: A Banh Mi That Does The Trick

​There's a sizeable Vietnamese population in DC where I had moved from, so it's easy to find decent pho and a respectable banh mi. Here? Tougher to find either: It appears South Florida isn't having the same banh mi love affair as elsewhere, which seems about right, since Vietnamese immigrants don ... More >>

Kapow! Noodle Bar: Restaurant Crib Notes

​Kapow! Noodle Bar chef Roy Villacrusis won the "Grand Chef Throwdown" at the fifth annual Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival last night, a five-day benefit for the James Beard Foundation. Villacrusis, who helmed the short-lived Kubo that earned New Times' Best Restaurant in Palm Beach in 2011, com ... More >>